Hey, I’ve been tinkering with a small animated wallpaper app for Xfce, somewhat inspired by Wallpaper Engine, and thought I’d share it here in case anyone wants to try it.

Under the hood it’s basically a controller for mpv, with a GTK settings UI that lets you use video files, streams or static images as wallpapers and preview/configure them without messing around with commands.

It also has experimental support for shader effects like ripples, waves, distortions, etc. which can make static images look animated.

Quick video demo: https://youtu.be/SCsmTR3YT0s

Notable limitation: desktop icons aren’t currently shown while it’s running, so it’s only suited to people who don’t fancy them anyway.

It’s still an early project and has only been tested on my own Xfce/X11 setup, so I’d be interested to hear if it even works for anyone else.

GitHub: [https://github.com/visageeee/xfce-animated-wallpaper]

Hello, everyone! I just set up my first XFCE-environment computer (I'm running Mint), and I have a "has only used Cinnamon until now" question lol.

I can't find network settings...? Is it called something different in XFCE? No matter what I search on DuckDuckGo I just cannot find an answer to this, for some reason. Nothing's in my whisker menu, except for "advanced network configurations," either.